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   by awt 16y ago

   Here's my perspective as the friend of someone who became addicted to WoW: I lost a potential programming buddy/co-founder. we used to collaborate on projects, but eventually WoW took up all his spare time. We both graduated with CS degre
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   by awt 16y ago

   Indeed, the US could kill the goose that lays golden eggs as well.
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   by awt 16y ago

   I hate making generalizations about huge entities like states, but I can't resist on this one. I think this kind of thing will ultimately trip China up, and prevent China from ever gaining a significant technological lead. The more closed
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   by awt 16y ago

   I always like to think of working at a start up as akin to attending a relatively cheap graduate program where you may or may not get your degree after you complete all the coursework.
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   by awt 16y ago

   Vernor Vinge
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   Is science fiction dying?(mobile.salon.com)

   27 points by awt 16y ago|55 comments
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   by awt 16y ago

   Well that's obvious, right? But that's an inferior solution to CL supporting bookmarking. Why would I want to clutter up my Browser with temporary CL bookmarks that I will have to delete at a later time? Not good UX.
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   by awt 16y ago

   I believe chrome is fairly standards-compliant, which IE is not. So your app will be more portable.
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   Automatically generate screenshots of your rails tests(blog.owyheesoftware.com)

   1 points by awt 16y ago|0 comments
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    by awt 16y ago

    Would be cool if they let me mark items I'm interested in so I can come back to them later.
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    by awt 16y ago

    What was with the focus on events that happened at specific dates? I understand the importance of knowing when events happened relative to each other, but memorizing dates seems a bit much. Perhaps the lack of easy access to reference mat
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    by awt 16y ago

    Not sure why Freenet is less appropriate than BitTorrent.
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    by awt 16y ago

    This sounds like a job for freenet. http://freenetproject.org/
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    by awt 16y ago

    I would amend this to something more like: find customers first, then build the thing they want in simplest way that satisfies their needs.
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    by awt 16y ago

    There is a beta for linux in the forums: http://www.zumocast.com/forums/15
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    by awt 16y ago

    Including mine. Love the service. It's sort of what I imagined hosting could be like but didn't think was possible. Anybody ever notice how cool the site design looks when you're working in the dark, late at night?
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    by awt 16y ago

    As a programmer it's always fun to be in a good job market. However, I do get a bit concerned about bubbles when things get overheated like this. I suppose the best one can do is save for the downturn and build up some great experience fo
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    by awt 16y ago

    The airline situation seems more and more analogous to the email spam problem. Right now the government is still in the blacklist phase. Hopefully soon they'll come up with something more like a bayesean approach -- training people to rec
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    by awt 16y ago

    Probably getting 5 hours a night and a nap mid day so doing ok. It is hard getting up in the middle of the night though.
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    by awt 16y ago

    Completely changed my life. I have a 3 week old. You have to relearn how to do everything. You have figure out new ways to do things that used to be easy: Cooking/eating Going to the store Sleeping I'm not giving up on my side projects t
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    by awt 16y ago

    http://motodiaryapp.com -- of course if Heroku is down and it's not already cached for you it won't load. This is the technology the site uses to allow offline access: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
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    by awt 16y ago

    I have an app running on Heroku. Interestingly, it caches itself using HTML 5 application cache, so most people won't even notice the site is down. Need to make sure the background network ops are fault tolerant though.
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    Ask HN: Users offer to help with your non-OSS project. What do you do?

    3 points by awt 16y ago|2 comments
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    by awt 16y ago

    Not really. But I don't think that most people interviewing a candidate would be pleased to hear something like that brought up by an interviewee. Perhaps you would, but I think most people would get the impression that someone who brough
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    by awt 16y ago

    I remember once telling an HR person at M$FT when interviewing for an internship ( 12 years ago ) that "I don't like to be micromanaged." I've since learned to be less forthright in my job interviews.
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    by awt 16y ago

    Anybody have suggestions as to how to market this app?
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    by awt 16y ago

    Do you have chrome frame installed?
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    by awt 16y ago

    FYI for those of you who are curious how many hits you get from a post like this: 816 so far. (posted 2 hrs ago).
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    by awt 16y ago

    The key (which is generated from the password), is stored using localStorage while the user has the app unlocked. I could certainly send myself the key somehow, but the concerned user should be able to snort that out fairly easily. I gues
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    by awt 16y ago

    I believe that onbeforeunload always prompts the user with a popup, which may be why I left it out -- can't quite remember. I will re-evaluate that decision.